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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 23 days ago • 503 comments

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

submitted 24 days ago • 57 comments

They're replacing every air traffic controller with ChatGPT and I for one couldn't be more optimistic. It's doomerist to think anything bad will ever happen

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

I wrote this to survive. I hope it helps you, too.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

At some point they’re going to go after Wikipedia and the Wayback Machine. More decentralised global efforts needed. “He who controls the past controls the future.”

submitted 34 days ago • 75 comments

They want you to think Community Notes has all the integrity of Wikipedia, but with none of the governance structures that make Wikipedia what it is. To mangle a reference, if they wanted Wikipedia, they would have invented Wikipedia.

submitted 47 days ago • 60 comments

Am I crazy for not listening to a fucking word Trump is saying right now?

submitted 47 days ago • 658 comments

Just going to reiterate - We are on this bot problem. We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight them in the signup process, we shall fight them in the notifications

submitted 49 days ago • 1607 comments

I hate the 'history will or will not' framing because look around you. Some are still learning that Columbus was great.

submitted 49 days ago • 18 comments

People keep using Twitter(X) in the end... Come back here ( ；∀；)

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

We're apparently talking about automatic follow-backs again, because some people simply can't imagine social media as anything other than a chain email

submitted 56 days ago • 46 comments

I think I may have just signed my first ever fiction contract (for an anthology) which contained a long anti-A.I. clause. (Meaning: I promised I didn't use A.I. to write my story, they promised not to use my story to train A.I., etc.)

submitted 56 days ago • 84 comments

I'm seeing more screenshots of posts from X than I am actual posts here this morning 🙄 My dears, we left X. Can we not bring it over here, please?

submitted 66 days ago • 116 comments

Darn. Sounds like an unviable business model then.

submitted 67 days ago • 21 comments

Simply incredible

submitted 71 days ago • 619 comments

i just.... it's literally the polio vaccine. how can you be on team polio

submitted 73 days ago • 172 comments

Please tell me who first posted this so I can properly credit, bc it made me laugh hard this morning

submitted 73 days ago • 71 comments

Like everyone else, I too fantasize about just throwing up my hands and saying 'fuck everything, i'm just going to attend to my & mine's needs' but we fucking LIVE IN A SOCIETY and that's just a silly fantasy. It will not lead to liberation. So we have to do what we can. Each of us.

submitted 76 days ago • 8 comments

THIS IS AMAZING NEWS!!!

submitted 75 days ago • 285 comments

Beautiful footage….. Humpback whale calf hugs mom ✨🩵✨🤍✨🩵✨

submitted 77 days ago • 144 comments

There’s a fascinating interview with Manic Street Preachers in the new Mojo by Dorian Lynskey. This, from James Dean Bradfield, feels particularly poignant. The disappearance of the culture you’re born into & made from can be really disconcerting. It’s pretty much inevitable, but it can really hurt.

submitted 78 days ago • 11 comments

“... the transformation of the commons into a resource, regardless of who profited, was itself a great loss.” Resit the enclosure of the human psyche. theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclos...

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submitted 80 days ago • 241 comments

Life is short and the world is a dumpster fire, so quit making excuses not to write in that pretty notebook you've been saving for a special occasion.

submitted 82 days ago • 28 comments

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason." - Ernest Hemingway

submitted 83 days ago • 24 comments

This is the future I want for us

submitted 97 days ago • 553 comments

Hey, writers! Just want to put this on your radar. There's a rash of new accounts here trying to scam writers by pretending to be book marketers. They are generally not legit. You can recognize them because:

submitted 82 days ago • 127 comments

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

submitted 82 days ago • 469 comments

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

submitted 82 days ago • 848 comments

South Korea was able to restore democracy and undo the martial law order because people reacted quickly and decisively. That’s how you protect democracy.

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Books. When buying books for gifts this holiday season, please don't buy from Amazon. Please shop at your local independent bookstore/bookseller. Ask for recommendations. If they don't have a particular book in stock, ask them to order it. Support creatives, local businesses, and your community.